Best TV Mom of All Time

June Cleaver could easily rise to the top of my list. She wasn’t liberated, but she always stood up to Ward when it came to what was best for the boys. You also have to love Marion Cunningham, who despite being kind of a ditz, was great to her family.

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Alice had a good work ethic.

Among the single mothers, Shirley Partridge was pretty cool, and Alice Hyatt had an good work ethic — while encouraging her son to pursue his own stupid guitar-playing dreams. Another longshot: Mama from “What’s Happening Now!!”

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Carol Brady: Needed to get a job.

While most TV moms were pretty solid, Roseanne’s parenting skills were questionable, and Ann Romano from “One Day at a Time” had a horrible track record — one of her daughters ended up shooting smack and the other married this guy.

And let’s be blunt — Carol Brady needed to get a job. Maybe not during the first two seasons. But by the end, she had, 1. A full-time live-in maid; 2. Her two eldest kids were old enough to drive the younger ones around; and 3. The youngest kids could take care of themselves. Meanwhile, her husband seemed totally stressed all the time. (We’ll save the rest of this rant for our Worst TV Moms of All Time post.)

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Scratching and surviving … to the top of our list!

For pure mothering skills, plus the ability to keep her s— together in the face of lean financial times, pimps coming to the door and easy-credit rip-offs, no one beats Florida Evans from “Good Times.”

She had a loose cannon for a husband, lived in the projects and two of her sons slept on the couch — and she still kept the family together through every trial. (At least until she hooked up with Moses Gunn and abandoned them in the fourth season. We won’t talk about that … .)